Lithuanian militiamen wearing red turbans, linen robes or improvised leather armor, carrying wooden shields or swords and spears, clustered siege ladders and pushed forward.

Due to the large angle of inclination and the chassis with axles, it was difficult for the defenders at the head of the city to push it away as long as it leaned against the city wall.

The scene of the defending soldiers pushing the siege ladder in the movie rarely happens in siege battles in history.

The scene of thousands of siege troops pushing hundreds of siege ladders was extremely shocking, and many armed citizens on the Chernihiv city wall who had not experienced a real battlefield were so frightened that their legs were paralyzed on the ground, let alone fighting, whether they could pick up weapons again is one thing......

Armed citizens, who were not properly trained or even mentally prepared to die, showed themselves at this moment to be even worse than ordinary militiamen, and even if the Cossack warriors and rebel soldiers at the head of the city punched, kicked, shouted insults, and even exchanged swords, they did not achieve much success.

In the end, the officers of the Ukrainian Cossack rebels had no choice but to put these timid armed citizens in the back as porters-like handymen.

The swarming Taiping siege troops, when they approached a distance of about 100 paces, suddenly flew a rain of arrows behind the Chernihiv city wall, and the Ukrainian Cossack rebels concentrated all their archers, standing behind the city wall according to the direction of the city head observer, and shot thousands of arrows at the same time!

The Lithuanian militia and mercenaries in the front row of the attack had no iron armor at all, and they were shot in the face by waves of arrows and cried out for their fathers and mothers.

Individual Lithuanian militiamen and mercenaries could not stand the fierceness of the front, turned around and tried to escape, but before they could pull out the siege queue, they were beaten into a sieve by the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army who were stepping from behind......

The follow-up elite musketeers of the Taiping Army were not only fire cover troops, but also execution supervision teams on the battlefield, and before the battle, the Taiping Army officers had strictly ordered that any behavior of turning around and escaping would be punished by death.

Money in one hand and a decapitator in the other, simple and crude, but very effective.

The instinct of greedy desire and fear of death is the best way to drive human beings.

The shields in the hands of the Lithuanian militia and mercenaries came in handy, and the arrows that were thrown could not even break through the protection of the foreskin wooden shields, and the quick-eyed soldiers were not too difficult to dodge the block, so the casualties were far less serious than they seemed on the surface.

As the distance of the besieging troops approached, dense muzzles and crossbows suddenly appeared on the city, and the loud sound of musket spraying completely overwhelmed the sound of the crossbow machine being pulled, and the lead bullets and sharp crossbow arrows that could not trace the trajectory easily pierced into the fragile human body, bringing up a dazzling blood flower.

The brutality of the siege has officially entered a new chapter.

The Lithuanian militiamen and mercenaries armed with bows and crossbows and arquebuses in the siege force also stopped one by one to counterattack upwards, and the two sides were very happy to shoot at each other, and there were casualties on each other.

In this kind of unsatisfactory shooting, the siege ladders still pressed over the corpses and leaned against the city, and the Lithuanian militia and mercenaries gathered below, under the supervision of the officers, began to climb with shields and swords in hand.

At the same time, one by one, the hooks were thrown out of the hands of a group of mercenaries and flew towards the battlements at the head of the city, these mercenaries were the veteran troops hired by Hong Tiancheng at a high price to attack the city.

Most of them are retired and escaped regular army soldiers, proficient in the way of climbing hooks to siege cities, hooking the hooks to the battlements of the city wall, and climbing up with weapons on their backs from the bottom up, which is also a common siege method on the European battlefield.

The defenders at the head of the city were under the massive fire of the siege troops, and few dared to show their heads and draw their knives to cut the thick ropes.

After the siege ladders and climbing hooks climbed up to the top of the city, the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army in the back arrived as promised, they stood within the effective range of the flintlock guns, lined up in a simple battle horizontal column, stood in two rows, and fired rows of volleys above the city head!

The marksmanship of these elite musketeers of the Taiping Army was much better than that of the previous Lithuanian militia and mercenary musketeers, and with the large-scale addition of the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army, the defending troops at the head of the city could no longer support it, and after paying thousands of casualties, they had no choice but to retreat behind the battlements......

In this way, there is no doubt that the morale of the troops who climbed the city was great, and the Lithuanian militia and mercenaries who could not climb up quickly climbed up, and the soldiers who took the lead in climbing the city to take the foothold in the Taiping Army's military merit system were the first to attack the city!

At this moment, a basin of hot oil was suddenly poured down, and although the soldiers defending the city holding the large basin were quickly shot by the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army, most of the soldiers on the siege ladder were still doused along with the siege ladder itself.

With the sound of the scalded siege soldiers falling to the ground, torches flew out one by one, igniting the siege ladders!

The Lithuanian militia and mercenaries gathered under the siege ladder were suddenly caught in a sea of fire, and the humanoid fire group ran before it died, which expanded the fire, and the troops who landed in the city were in a predicament for a while.

Immediately afterwards, a group of Cossack warriors and rebel soldiers appeared at the head of the city, and muskets and crossbows slanted down, completely crushing the already demoralized troops who had fallen into the city.

Of course, the outcropping defenders were also hit by the volleys of the elite musketeers of the Taiping army, and paid a terrible price.

It's just that the purpose of the defending troops has been achieved, the siege ladder was burned, a large number of troops who climbed the city were killed, and the Taiping army had no choice but to issue an order to retreat.

The remnants of the siege and the city also retreated, and there was no siege ladder to provide a steady stream of living force, and they were also sent to death if they went up.

This is the daily life of siege warfare, and the real siege battles are won in repeated battles for attrition, especially for large cities.

The retreating Taiping army, after regrouping, once again made a noise of war drums, and the replenished tens of thousands of troops who climbed the city escorted the new siege ladder and rushed up.

For the city of Chernihiv, the fierceness of the siege has only just begun.

The Taiping army had cannon fodder to consume oil and ammunition in the city of Chernihiv.

Hong Tiancheng looked at the tragedy of the second wave of siege, and commented in a flat tone: "These Ukrainian Cossacks are still a bit responsible, and the defending troops who are so desperate to shoot at our army are rare when they attacked the cities of Smolensk and Verkhov's territory before.

The Cossacks, as expected, were a threatening armed group, and the future Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would never allow the existence of free Cossack fighters. ”